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These two failings are actually one: a person does not believe that states, the love of the Holy One, blessed be He, for the worst Faith and Will
Hashem is all-powerful in the spiritual realm! sinner of Israel is thousands upon thousands of times greater than
that of a father for his only son who was born to him after decades When we do the work of the will, we want to bring about solutions
First Axiom: Hashem Can Save Everyone Spiritually of waiting, hope and prayer. As the holy Zohar states, “If people to intransigent problems and transform ourselves. Therefore, we
only knew the love with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loves must learn how to attain perfect prayer: what leads to perfect
Know that Hashem is all-powerful in the spiritual realm. That the people of Israel, they would roar like lions to come close to prayer and what, on the other hand, harms and damages perfect
means that Hashem can do everything without any exception. Him” (Shemot 5b). prayer. I will focus on wholeness of faith and wholeness of the will.
Hashem made Moses, and He can make you and everyone else Normal parents in this world cannot give their son everything that Rabbi Nachman certainly had wholeness of faith, but as for us,
into a Moses. When I made this observation in my classes, my before we reach the ability to cry out we must establish faith in
students told me that it seems obvious. I said that it might indeed they want to give him. But our Father in heaven has no problem our hearts. Therefore, I will explain at length and thoroughly the
giving us everything we need in order to rectify ourselves and
be obvious—but how many people really believe that Hashem can fulfill our mission. All you have to do is open the door. When you meaning of wholeness of faith that arouses the will and unequivocal
make them into a Moses? The fact that they do not strive to reach prayer. And I will focus on wholeness of faith in regard to the work
the level of Moses is proof that they do not believe that this is do so, you accomplish what the Creator most wants and desires, of the will.
because His entire wish is that you will come to Him and desire to
actually possible.
be accepted by Him. After that, I will discuss wholeness of the will. Rabbi Nachman
The Rambam writes explicitly that everyone can be a person as of Breslov and the tzaddikim of the generations sensed spiritual
I thought of another image as well: If the son of the king were
righteous as Moses. Similarly, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov states wandering about the streets in torn and filthy clothing, eating scraps danger as strongly as they sensed physical danger, and even more
that he can make everyone like himself, literally. Therefore, dear from the garbage, sleeping on benches, shivering from the cold and so—literally. Therefore, their spiritual will to avoid transgressing
reader, know and believe this. Beseech Hashem at length to give Hashem’s will to the slightest extent was perfect. But we need to
you complete and absolute faith that just as He made Abraham, reeking with putrid odors, how much pain the king would feel and work very much in order to acquire this proper feeling and intent.
how much he would want to aid him and do everything to help him
Isaac and Jacob, just as He made Moses and Aaron, Joseph and Therefore, I will explain how we attain the perfect will to change
David, just as He made all of the tzaddikim and helped them get out of that situation and return to a normal life, and how much spiritually. That is the essence of everyone’s work: after you have
pain the king would feel if his son did not want to leave but insisted
become tzaddikim, gaonim and shepherds of Israel, just as He made on living like a stray cat. Conversely, how much happiness the king built the foundations of faith, the essence of your work is to build
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the Ari, the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi a forceful and whole will.
Nachman of Breslov, so can He do the same with you, and bring would feel when his son realized that he is headed in the wrong
direction, and asked for the king’s help and guidance.
you as you are, even if you are the most sinful and reprehensible
person in the world, to the highest levels. The same applies to every Jew who is stained by sins, cravings,
bad traits and addictions, and who is far from the normal life that
Hashem casts down the proud and elevates the humble. He can
raise the impoverished from the trash heap and seat him among Hashem wants him to live, a life of sweetness with Torah, prayer and
princes. He can guide the greatest sinner to do complete teshuvah the fear of heaven, and who lives in the garbage, in Gehennom—
because living in this world without faith is worse than Gehennom,
so that he will be completely righteous and among the greatest and to be far from the Torah and the fear of heaven is not a life.
people of the generation. Hashem can transform all sins into merits,
and no one can impede Him. He can do so, and He wishes to do How much Hashem wants to help every Jew, and how pleased He
is by every Jew who realizes that he is living a mistake and wants
so. Now the choice is yours to believe this with complete faith and
to desire it with a complete heart! to improve. Even if his path to a normal life is very long, Hashem
wants to help him and do everything to shorten his path and make
Therefore, every time you engage in the work of the will and focus it possible for him to do complete teshuvah.
on a particular detail in the service of Hashem—such as no longer
Thus, when we possess complete awareness that Hashem wants to